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Week 9 and 10

English

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1. A very steep or vertical face of a cliff or rock Precipice
1. A person who has invested personal wealth in a business 2. A very wealth person Capitalist
1. Surrender; ending resisdence Capitulstion
1. To cut off the head of ; behead Decapitate
1. To throw down from a great height 2. To happen suddenly or quickly Precipitate
1. The restatement of a main idea 2. A summary or concise review Recapitulation
1. Pertaining to the brain 2. Intellectual Cerebral
1. The action of thinking ; thought Cerebration
1. To mar or spoil the appearance or surface Deface
1. To wipe out ; to obliterate 2. To make less clear ; rubbing out 3. To make oneself inconspicuous Efface
1. A face of a building 2. The face or front of anything, especially an artificial or false front Facet
1. To insult intentionally ; to offend or embarrass Affront
1. To stand or or come directly in front of 2. To face with defiance or hostility Confront
1. Flippant or insulting boldness ; audacity Effrontery
1. Disdainful ; haughty and aloof Supercilious
1. Relentlessness ; unyielding Inexorable
1. A face of a building 2. The face or front of anything, especially an artificial or false front Facet
1. To stand or or come directly in front of 2. To face with defiance or hostility Confront
1. Flippant or insulting boldness ; audacity Effrontery
1. Disdainful ; haughty and aloof Supercilious
1. A shine where the ancient Greeks consulted one of their gods for advise or prophecy 2. A prophecy made at such a shrine 3. A person who transmits prophecy from deity Oracle
1. An address or formal speech given on a special occasion Oration
1. A mouth or vent ; an opening Orifice
1. To kiss playfully Osculate
1. A cut or notch Indentation
1. A written contract between two parties 2. To bind by written contract Indenture
1. A long three-pronged fork or weapon Trident
1. A specialist who corrects irregularly position teeth Orthodontist
1. A deep, narrow passage with rocky sides, enclosed between mountains 2. Gluttonous eating 3. A feeling of nausea Gorge
1. To expel from the throat or stomach ; to vomit 2. Ro discharge violently Disgorge
1. Of immense size ; gigantic Gargantuan
1. A grotesque carved human or animal figure, especially one used as a rain-spout carrying water clear of a wall Gargoyle
1. To cause to pour back or cast up partially digested food ; to vomit 2. To rush or surge back Regurgitate
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